Hosteria Los Lagos Ushuaia

... either.<br><br>We arrived at Iguazu Tues afternoon around 1pm. Our hotel was actually a B&amp;B called Secret Garden B&amp;B. It has three rooms plus the owner lives in the house in front. It was a really cool place. Iguazu is kind of jungle-ey and there were lots of flowers, vines, trees around the premises. The owner was from India originally and had moved to BA about 25 years ago. 3 years ago he moved to Iguazu to òpen the B&amp;B to try something new. One of the great things about ...

... no one was complaining about the views! Puerto Natales is where we were dropped off from the boat. This is the gateway to Torres del Paine National park. We´d heard nothing but amazing things about the park. We spent our first day visiting various lookout points. The mountains were capped with snow, the trees were a mix of green, yellow and orange. We couldn´t have asked for better weather. We then stayed the night in one of the hiking huts. It cost us $88 NZ ...

Poor Mick... one day he's an Aussie hero, the first roo to bounce on Antarctica; the next day he's disembarking in a different role: this was a zodiac cruise with no landing and I knew I would be absolutely freezing, despite upping the clothing to six layers, so my animal companion accompanied me on the zodiac, folded up and stuffed down the back of my waterproof trousers as an insulating cushion ...

... surprisingly large, flat expanse - almost like a super-caldera. The forest was sparse - then we saw many dead trees. Fire? Disease? It was a bit hard to tell. <br><br>Eventually, it was time to turn around, so we would not exceed our 200km limit. We retraced our steps, still with a gorgeous view. On our return, we stopped at a "typical" Argentine restaurant - cabin-like, with a smoky aroma. We arrived at the same time as a busload of (Argentine) tourists, but the restaurant ...

... in Ushuaia wordt een ongeveer weersvoorspelling afgegeven, hier kunnen letterlijk de vier seizoenen in 1 uur voorbij komen - leidde ons tot 1.000 meter boven de stad en het Beagle Channel. Dit is de laatste nederzetting ter wereld, vlak voor Kaap Hoorn en nog zo´n 1.000 km verwijderd van Antartica. Helaas zijn reizen hier naar toe niet te betalen, de last minute prijzen voor het schip wat vanmiddag vertrok betrof nog ...

i just got back from a week in Ushuiah, which is the southermost city in the world at the very tip of Argentina. We were actually on the tectonic plates that technically made us in Antartica... so crazy! It was pretty cold and windy the whole time, but it was the most incredible trip I´ve ever taken!!! It was with my entire ...

... and food during the flight (although a coke without icecubes and a dry cracker) ... It was the first flight in my life where I had to sit "the wrong way round" what was an interesting experience (with my face towards the back of the plane) Since Linda (a girl from Ireland on her way around the world, who I met on my way from El Chalten to El Calafate (yes the "don't ...

Good morming all you superbowl fans its super bowl Sunday. I may get to see the game here dont know yet if it will be on or mot. Today we head to tierrrs del Fuego national park. We met a I talian couple who will be on the cruise, hes a lawyer and she works for IBM they know some English, Met a lady from Tennessese, who also will be on the Orlova with us, we ...

... Argentines so you are always surrounded by Spanish, good for us gringos. Very cool to see that in a tourist oriented town, there is little pressure to buy stuff. Maybe we have forgotten what South America is about, but our experiences in Asia, and mostly in Africa had many touts approach us about buying anything and everything. In 4+ days in Ushuaia (silent 'h' in Spanish) we had one guy try to sell us something for about 4 seconds. Otherwise unbothered. That ...

Another long bus journey to the end of the world... It would have been quicker if we hadn´t had to cross Chilean territory before reentering Argentina but it´s impossible to get down here without doing this if you´re travelling overland. I think we stopped at least half a dozen times for customs and immigration. It got noticeably colder ...